Politics

Election rules lost on the Arab world

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/election-rules-lost-on-the-arab-world/story-e6frg6ux-1226073914775 

Media

The Future Of Media Doesn’t Need the Feds

http://blogs.forbes.com/adamthierer/2011/06/12/the-future-of-media-doesnt-need-the-feds/ 

Poverty

Ministry says Ethiopia will keep on creating conducive investment environment

http://www.waltainfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27147&Itemid=45 

Media

Who Will Win the Facebook and Google War?

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/

It’s no fiction: Amazon Kindle eBook sales and the impact on booksellers

http://www.weberbooks.com/selling/2011/05/its-no-fiction-amazon-kindle-sales-and-the-impact-on-booksellers.html

Poverty

Zambia: World Bank Changes Strategy to Arrest Poverty

http://allafrica.com/stories/201105121204.html

UN: Food Prices Deepening Global Poverty

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/UN-Food-Prices-Deepening-Global-Poverty-121591139.html

Environment

Climate change bringing infection, hunger, illness

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-climate-change-illness-idUSTRE74C6WF20110513

Health

Is McDonald's Betraying Our Kids By Barraging Them With Junk Food Ads?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/mcdonalds-ads-kids_b_864956.html 

Global Responses to Retirement of MM Lee Kuan Yew

The Economist: LKY - Not fade away

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/05/singapore_politics

Bloomberg: LKY ends 5-decade role in cabinet

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-15/singapore-ruling-party-seeks-to-renew-image-with-lee-kuan-yew-resignation.html

Montreal Gazette: Lee’s departure signal’s reform

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Singapore+patriarch+departure+signals+reform/4786671/story.html

Singapore GE 2011 – What the World is Saying

The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576310774027709228.html?KEYWORDS=singapore

Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-08/singapore-foreign-minister-george-yeo-becomes-biggest-casualty-in-election.html

The Star (Malaysia)

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/9/nation/8643526&sec=nation

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110507/as-singapore-election

Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/08/us-singapore-elections-idUSTRE7470G720110508

AlJazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/05/2011570548316405.html